Review Summary

To describe the knockabout family comedy “Old Dogs” as a ramshackle mess doesn’t begin to evoke the confusion and sloppy continuity of a movie whose disconnected parts sometimes appear to have been randomly assembled from a cutting-room scrap heap. “Chaos reigns,” the apocalyptic catchphrase from Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” might be more accurate. Even those professional charmers John Travolta and Robin Williams have their hands full trying to infuse some levity into their stick-figure characters.
— Stephen Holden